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Sony leads the way with the world's first commercial OLED TV, the XEL-1. It's received a chorus of critical acclaim since CES, praised for its brightness, colour saturation, lightning fast response time and its amazingly slim profile. It’s just 3mm deep.

There's no denying that the XEL-1 represents the first step towards more responsive (and more efficient) living room TVs. But let's not forget that Sony's debut OLED model is only 11-inches across, only has a 960 x 540 resolution, and costs more than many 42-inch plasmas do.


Sony has announced plans to pump 22 billion yen, which is around $203.5 million, into developing new technology for making medium to large organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels.

According to DisplaySearch, almost 90 percent of OLEDs shipping are for just two applications: personal media players and cellphones; in the latter, AMOLEDs are commonly the main cellphone display, while passive OLEDs provide the less-demanding subdisplay.

Samsung SDI has announced that it expects to have 14-, 15- and 21-inch AMOLED monitors available by 2009, as well as 42-inch AMOLED TVs by the following year. Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics has demonstrated a 40-inch AMOLED TV. For its part, CMEL has a goal of delivering 32-inch AMOLEDs for TVs by 2010. LG.Philips LCD, in turn, is developing AMOLEDs, and has demonstrated the technology for building flexible versions. Matsushita is reportedly in pursuit of TV-size AMOLEDs, and Casio is sometimes mentioned as a possible new player. DisplaySearch expects 30-inch AMOLED TVs to appear in 2009.

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